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I hate asking people for money, but at least Crowd funding can be fun, and the generosity of our authors in coming up with novel rewards is a constant pleasure.

We hope to announce our final line up of stories and poems tomorrow, but in the mean time…

This is a fastcrowd fund, less than a fortnight to go already, so please, if you are thinking of supporting this year’s Solstice Shorts, Noon, don’t dawdle! We didn’t try to get arts council funding this year (to be honest still recovering from last year’s epic fundraising) so the festival is modest, locally funded as far as possible, and short – Noon, after all, despite how long it takes a clock to strike 12, is only a second long, blink and you missed it. So please don’t blink!

Because we are on 6 sites (Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Carlisle, Ynys Mon, London and Cork) there will still be a book, which will be published on 21st March – for the spring equinox, and this is one of the rewards:

If you would like to preorder a copy of this book, or buy one of the previous solstice shorts books

Subject to confirmation from the writers, issuing of contracts and so on, we have the line-up for An Outbreak of Peace, our anthology responding to the centenary of the ending of WWI, which will be published in November.

Call out for stories and poems for an anthology celebrating the centenary of the end of WWI. Publication planned for Nov 2018.

Provisional Title An Outbreak of Peace.

Two free copies of the anthology, and royalties @ 8% divided between all the contributors. e-book royalties @25% of net divided between all contributors.

Open to everyone – unpublished and in English please.
Stories: around 2000 words but anything between 1000 and 2500 accepted.
Poems up to 1000 words.

How you respond to this theme is up to you, and it doesn’t need to be specific to WWI, but we find nothing to celebrate in war, and want a good balance for the book between appropriate commemoration of the dead, relief that it’s over and hope for the future.

It may not have that title, but you get the idea. We don’t actually want to get mistaken for Phillip Pullman.

A copy of the anthology that will be published including all the chosen stories and poems, and the lyrics of any original songs that get chosen. Paperback, B format, notch bound, 80 gsm wood free paper. Cover will utilise our DUSK logo. No idea just yet how many pages – probably around 160. This will be put together at the speed of light as soon as we’ve chosen the material and we aim to have it ready for the events, but it WON’T be available in the shops until June – so you will be getting a very pre-publication copy, so hot off the press it sizzles.

The perfect christmas gift! The book of the competition – contains stories by all four judges, plus the twelve winners of the competition. All these stories will be read live at the festival on 21st December. Order your copy/ies now from us via Inpress or ask at your local bookshop.

Coming to the festival? You can collect your order from us on the day and get your book signed by as many authors as you can track down – they will have badges.

This call out is FINISHED. We’ll be in touch with everyone who has submitted (thanks by the way!) by the end of April, other priorities permitting.

Calling all poets who like to write long complex things that take several pages and tell some kind of story. (I don’t mean the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, or Hiawatha, just some thread of coherent narrative!).

It may be swimming against the tide, but we are looking for poems for our first poetry anthology – long poems. So if you are ever frustrated by 40 line limits, this is your chance. We want AT LEAST 40 lines of narrative poetry. Send your PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM offering in before the end of February 2014 for consideration, using the contact form below.

We pay royalties (once production costs have been recovered) but no advances.

This call out is FINISHED. We’ll be in touch with everyone who has submitted (thanks by the way!) by the end of April, other priorities permitting.

Join us to celebrate the East London section of our book, Stations, with readings for Hoxton, Shoreditch High Street, Whitechapel, Dalston and Shadwell.

Brick Lane Bookshop
166 Brick Lane
E1 6RU
(Closest Overground station: Shoreditch High Street)
Owing to geographical impossibility and prior bookings we will have two of the stories read by actors, so those who are unfamiliar with the Liars’ League way of doing things can explore the different texture to be had from an actor and an author reading their work in public.

Discover what the well dressed vampire gets up to on a day up from the coast, what sharks have to do with WWI, how to entice the one you love with art, how not to sell property, and how to trust your offspring to make their own decisions.

Stories from many writers linked by the Overground line. Retired Policemen investigate train based crime, mothers cut the apron-strings, Students play hookey, oppressed workers fight back against bullying, and your local museum holds more than meets the eye…

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